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Jelena reached a hand to Tempest again and scratched between his ears then under his chin. Yes, the little thing though dangerous in his looks was quite the affectionate beast. Then a scratch at his stomach as he took to being a lazy house cat again.

She gave a nod to Rosey as she left with Kyri and then looked to James with a smile. "Sure you don't want to be a scientist James? You can still snatch a degree or two." A laugh then as she walked over to him and took hold of his arm, walking him out of the room. "Fine, I'll let you help me finish up the cerberus...but you have to dress funny and not tell anyone what I do in that lab...or I will hurt you."

"I mean goggles, gloves and coats...can't be mixing any DNA now can we?" Oh there was a good joke in there wasn't there? How nice. And thus a storage cabinet in the hall outside the room was PAID open and she tossed him the aforementioned gear. "Suit up baby, no chances." Ha, another...Of course she wouldn't outright mention it.

But he did get quite the surprised look as she suited up and PAID the lab door open for them. For some reason his acceptance of the little suggestion took her by surprise...thought him too set in his military ways to want something new. Then again he was a man of challanges...and getting her specific set of degrees was challengeing...she even heard her techs grumble about getting theirs and they were only techs. "Really now? That would be most interesting."

A smile back to him as she went about activating systems in the room, and the like, pulling up files on the computer there and getting things all set up and the like. Oddest part was that she was going about this all in a very organized way...about one of the only times she was ever organized from beginning to end...probaby explained why she lacked organization outside the lab.

"I see your point James. No one likes to sit around being useless...part of the reason I don't go to Earth either. Nothing there for me in the ways of personal pleasure or jobs either. But this is a better home isn't it? Up here...there's a certain feeling of...freedom..." Yeah, that's what she would call it.

Sitting down in the main station of the room she flipped om the VR microscope and cracked her knuckles. "Now, want to get your hands dirty or are you intending just to watch?"

"Good to know, should start on those bioengineering degrees early, huh?" A small laugh from her before she took to they keyboard of the computer that went to the VR microscope. And up popped the regular 3D video feed of the DNA structure she had under it. Looked like nothing but a specimen dish in the device, but the screen showed the treasure there.

"Here is our DNA structure...full of holes obviously. Different colors show the different mixed components, marked by this legend down in the corner here. I simply type in commands here and the equipments does the injection of DNA and the like."

Another screen brought up. "Now, we simply retrieve the program you came up with, and apply it to the set of instructions and then give the computer a moment to reconfigure it all." Yeah and that was just step one. A look to James, a rather excited look to her eyes. Kid in a candy store.

"Exactly...and you have no idea how nice it is for someone to catch what you say the first time you say it. Repeating one's self is for computers and parrots, not people." Though she cleared her throat as the computer alerted that it was ready, knew what it needed to do and just wanted confirmation from her. So in essence she had to confirm every step as well as monitor it.

"Once there is a stable strain with a probability of working out, I simply get an egg from the base species that's been used. Really it turns into the age old practice of a combination of genetic engineering in first stages and then also artificial insemination. Of course with test tubes and the like. But that's the general process. I'm literally making babies here."

Silence a moment as she went about confirming things and watching on the scope feed the little nanomachines going about splicing and fusing things in the way and order she wanted. "Then an incubation period to make sure it all takes, and if it does the specimen is moved from here to the stasis chamber to grow and mature under strict observation." Okay...she was really into this.

"Really James, this cruiser is huge...accomodating something of that size would be easy enough and building it would only be a matter of time and assembling it in smaller pieces brought on ship. Problem is that I would need a lab space big enough and that I don't have nor can I get Radiance to clear me on it. One of my other problems. Sure, they let me do the project but they're picky about letting me do something too grand scale."

Then a blank look for a moment before she smirked. "And it would also depend on stage of development in their stasis as well. I've more than once pulled an Echo out because technically they were done but still growing. Leaving them in stasis too long can be harmful. Like the ten foot male Fenrir...the stasis chambers on allow for eight feet around and top and bottom...I pulled him out when he got to big, since he was ready and he grew his remaining two feet in the enclosures."

"And thus dear James, you see the problem of creatures on such a large scale. Depending on how fast growth would go in such creatures, you could hypothesize that even if taken out in such an infancy state, one could care for it and thus live. Problem is that it would possibly loose it's natural thinking, which I strive to keep. Now I know all my Echoes have a tendency to love on me, but they've given me the run around too, they've kept their total wild sides because I haven't hand raised them...and I believe they only let me as close as they do because they recognize me as their mother figure."

Dear God this was wonderful...someone besides Erik who actually got what she was saying and she didn't have to repeat herself! A moment of distraction over which she told the computer driven nanos to do a few more things...though she gave many commands that should of been for several steps, its was all for one really.